Human Dimensions

Comparing Carbon Calculatorspart of Examples Carbon calculators, no matter how well intended as tools to help measure energy footprints, tend to be black boxes and can produce wildly different results, depending on the calculations used to weigh various ...

Long Term Ecological Resourcespart of Examples Students analyze data on temperature and precipitation collected from 26 different Long Term Ecological Research sites and compare them with annual net primary productivity. The students then form an ecological ...

Earth System Topics: Biosphere, Human Dimensions, Biosphere:Ecology

Electrical Analysis of Wind Powerpart of Examples For this experiment, students use a DC motor as a generator and various shaped turbine designs to test which design produces the most electrical power. Using a fan to generate the "wind", students attach ...

Earth System Topics:Human Dimensions:Energy

Annotating Change in Satellite Imagespart of Examples During this exercise, students compare a series of satellite images taken 3-4 years apart to investigate the effects of human land use and annotate the images using ImageJ software. -

Earth System Topics: Geography, Human Dimensions:Land Use

Comparing Sunscreenspart of Examples Students use a microcomputer connected to an ultra-violet sensor to compare the relative blocking power of different SPF sunscreens for the UVB region of the solar spectrum. -